The Penn's Grove record., 1887-09-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK

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the morning of the 10th, in a suburb in
Springfield, Massachusetts,, known as
the though End" She was conscious,
and died after saying that she had been
assaulted by two men. Her husband
was drunk at the time and had been on
a spree for a week. William II. James,
fire boss in the Richardson Colliery, at
Glen Carbon, Penna., was shot dead
from ambush on the 10th, while going
from the mine to his home.
"A collision occurred on the Iron
Mountain Railroad, north of Nettleton,
Tennessee, between two construction
trains, on the evening of the 18th.
Three men were killed and seven badly
injured. Two passenger trains on the
st. Paul and Kansas City Railway col
lided about six miles south of Water
loo, Iowa, on the evening of the 18th.
A sleeping car was hurled into a ditch,
~alighting almost squarely bottom side
up. There we're fourteen passengers
in the sleeper. several of whom were
more or less injured.
September the 10th was the second
day of the Constitutional Centennial
Celebration at Philadelphia. 1t was
marked by a grand military parade, led
by Lieutenant General Sheridan and
reviewed by President Cleveland, and
by several receptions and other social
affairs given to the distinguished Wis
itors to the city. The parade included
representatives of the Army and Navy
of the United States and of the militia
of seventeen States and of the District
of Columbia, and various posts of the
Grand Army of the Republic. The
crowd was enormous.
During a terrific thunder storm at
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on the 10th,
lightning struck two houses, killing
one man and injurlng two others, u
fatally.
Mercer Beasley, Jr., son of Chief
Justice Beasley, of New Jersey, COM
mitted suicide in Trenton on the even
ing of the 10th.
"A pension check originally drawn
for 81, dated May, 1885, which had
been raised to $2450, and had passed
through several banks and private
hands, was recently presented at the
cash room of the United States Treas
ury for payment by n OF the banks of
Washington, The check had been SO
cleveTly manipulated that it is the opin-
Ion of the Treasurer that had 1t been
presented to an inexperienced person
at the Treasury Department, it would
have been cashed without question.
AT Waterbury, Connecticut, on
the 10Th, Robert Drakeley vas found
guilty of killing his wife in 1886. 'He
came of a wealthy Baltimore family.
His wife was an adventures much
older than he, who married HIM for his
money. They had been married but
six weeks when he shot her in a fit of
jealousy On account of her attentions to
a former lover"
The third day of the celebration of
the Constitutional Centennial on the
18th at Philadelphia, had for Its special
feature "a memorial meeting IN indie
penence Squire, at which President
Cleveland presided and made an adj
dress. Justice Miller, of the United
States supreme Court. delivered the
Grafton, the opening prayer was made
by Bishop Potter, and Cardinal Glib
bons offered the closing prayer.
1t is reported from Duluth that a
package of money, containing $780, |
600, has mysteriously disappeared from
the Union National Bank of that
city. None of the employees are sus-
pected, the theft, being attributed t
outsiders. 1t was discovered last week
that two heavy gold bracelets, brought
from Cypress by General Di Cesnola,
had been stolen from a case in the
Metropolitan Museum, IN New York.
1.-THE gold in the bracelets was worth
500, and that is only a small portion
of their real value"
The engineer of a passenger train
On the Jefferson City branch of the
Chicago and Alton Railroad, when
near Guthrie, Missouri, on the evening |
of the 10th, discovered an obstruction
on the track. He stopped the train,
and found a heavy iron fish-plate fast
ened across the track. The train pro-
ceeded cautiously, and about two miles
further on found the track again OBJ
structed by a pile of ties. These were
removed, and the train proceeded with
out accident.
The Texas fever prevails among
cattle in the nelghborhOod of Pittsburg. |
The disease d~3Teloned in a herd. of 81
animals bought at the EI"+ JstocR
yards by a Natrona deal .,E weeks
ago. After buying them the purchaser
killed twenty and sold the meat.
Since then the disease has appeared,
and nine of the animals have died. |
The remainder have been ordered
killed by State Veterinarian Edge
The last of the injured of t..> al
fated Niagara excursionists remaining
at C~hatsworth, Illinois, died on the
10th. This makes the total number of
victims eighty. Edward Duffy, James
Barrett and William Harding, while
repairing a Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road bridge near Wheeling On the 18th,
were knocked by a yard engine to the
river bed below and killed.
"A despatch from Laramie, Wyom-
ing Territory, says A. w. Whltehouse,
a young Englishman, while out hunt
ing antelopes on the 18th, accidentally
shot and killed his companion, George
Fl. Gordon. The two were graduates
of Oxford College and the o of
wealthy English parents. They arrived
in America three weeks ago and went
West to engage in the stock business.
In Wilmington, Delaware, about
half past M O'Clock on the morning of
the nth, Henry RIedel, until recently
a weaver in the Wilmington Mills, shot
and killed his wife and nine-year-old
son while they were asleep in bed. He
then aimed a bullet at himself, but it
glanced OFF the skull, making a wound
which is not considered dangerous. AT
Ludlow, Kentucky, on the afternoon of
the 18th. Robert Plummer was as
saulted by George Grummeiser while
both men we're at work on a railroad
bridge. Plummer drew a revolver and
killed bis assailant. lie had recently
been promoted to a position from
which Grummeiser had been discharged.
George Branch, a private of Battery
G., Fifth U. 5. Artillery, committed
suicide at Fort Monroe on the 18th, by
jumping from the rampant into the
mOat.
Letters have reached the Amerl-
can Board of Commissioners for For